Nick Honstein uses lots of rubber guard in mma fight (video)

[Eddie Bravo]

[Jason Mallory]

Pretty good, pretty good. This is not a diss on Jose Aldo who is top 3 in the world but I'm sure he would have taken less shots to the head in round 5 of his fight with Hominick if he developed his RG instead of double wrist control.

[Ben]

I can't believe this is still a debate at all. Compare what happened when each was on his back.

Rubber Guard Player: Offensive, and taking little to no punishment
Standard Guard Player: Pure defensive, still taking punishment.

Need I say more?

[Sam Weston]

^^ Alot of sense!

[michael h]

The rubber guard certainly allows you to be more active and many times forces your opponent into opportunities to attack while in the standard guard you many times have a harder time of advancing your position and of being offensive from each advanced position.

[Andrew Maxwell]

The same thing happened in Vinny Maghalhaes' last fight, he used rubber guard and didn't get hit once while in the position.

[Dan Wheeler]

I can't believe this is still a debate at all. Compare what happened when each was on his back.

Rubber Guard Player: Offensive, and taking little to no punishment
Standard Guard Player: Pure defensive, still taking punishment.

Need I say more?

sense. In the words of canadian jesus, Fuck all you haters!
(the drunk bacon guy)

[FRANK BARCA]

abso frickin lutely!!!!

Pretty good, pretty good. This is not a diss on Jose Aldo who is top 3 in the world but I'm sure he would have taken less shots to the head in round 5 of his fight with Hominick if he developed his RG instead of double wrist control.

[NelsonLucca]

Very nice. Too bad he didn't work harder to get to the stock when he had his hook in.

[Eddie Bravo]

Nick has pretty damn good posture control, he now needs to focus on clearing the neck and hitting the options off chill dog